The Power and Grace of Our 14 Foot Falls with Pete McLean

Pete McLean was doing carpentry work when a scaffolding collapsed and he fell 14 feet onto rocks, breaking several bones in his lower body, and he hit the ground running.

Sometimes the falls come for us, and sometimes we choose to leap, but either way, Pete holds that our falls are the moments in our lives when something deeper in us is creating an opening to make itself visible and expressed in this world.

Could it be that the thing that we spend most of our time keeping beneath the surface-because of fear or shame or some idea that it’s not OK-is presenting us with an opening to give it wings?

Join us for a conversation about how we might trust the falls in our lives as experiences in which our soul is calling us into greater courage, curiosity and possibility.

Pete’s Website: Of Earth and Soul
Of Earth and Soul Podcast: 14 Foot Falls on Spotify
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The story that launched the ethos:

Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Pete McLean

Peter McLean grew up during the time of a great and powerful spell. The spell had him believing he was separate from nature, that he was sinful at birth, and that the path towards happiness and wholeness required a lot of accumulating, purchasing and consuming.

Of Earth and Soul is his war cry, his grief song, his orgasmic moan, his belly busting laugh, his game of tag with the divine, his quiet sip of the sunrise.

Of Earth and Soul is his antidote, his charm of spell reversal. To come back under the enchantment of the earth, her power, wisdom, intelligence and all the beauty waiting to be brought forth in feeling the truth of a deep belonging in, and among, all that is wild and free.

Pete comes to this work wholeheartedly, honestly, and circuitously.

For many years, a farmer, a facilitator, a coach, a part-time carpenter, a full-time community member, a man, a being questing after his soul.

And that soul, that insistent, persistent, resistant, wild-wailing-infant of a soul, has brought him into the forest. Into the marsh. Into the river. Into the cave. Into the sunrise and set. The new and full moons. Into circle. Calling in circles. Calling in gatherings. Calling in collective focus and intention. Calling in others who also hear the song of their soul and are risking listening. For what the soul asks, or demands, or commands of them.

Pete McLean’s formal training has followed three main paths: indigeneity, soul work, and shadow work.

His indigenous training has been through Therese Jorn… Read More